The Tempest

An adaptation of the play by William Shakespeare. Prospera (a female version of Shakespeare's Prospero) is the usurped ruler of Milan who has been banished to a mysterious island with her daughter. Using her magical powers, she draws her enemies to the island to exact her revenge.

2010-09-11 | en

Twelfth Night

Shakespeare's comedy of gender confusion, in which a girl disguises herself as a man to be near the count she adores, only to be pursued by the woman he loves.

1996-10-25 | en

A Midsummer Night's Dream

Four young people escape Athens to a forest where the king and queen of the fairies are quarreling, while meanwhile, a troupe of amateur actors rehearses a play. When the fairy Puck uses a magic flower to make people fall in love, the whole thing becomes a little bit confused...

1935-10-09 | en

Körsbärsträdgården

Television adaptation of Chekhov's story about the spoiled widow Madame Ranevskaya.

1970-08-23 | sv

Tuntematon sotilas

Kristian Smeds's sensational debut at the National Theater. Smeds's adaptation of Väinö Linna's The Unknown Soldier had a powerful impact even on those who had not seen the play. In the National Theater's interpretation, modernity and intensity are strongly present throughout the play. The cast includes Antti Luusuaniemi, Kristo Salminen, and Jaakko Kytömaa.

2009-02-07 | fi

Love's Labour's Lost

A scholarly king and his three companions swear off the society of women for three years, only to have a diplomatic visit from a French princess and her three ladies-in-waiting thwart their intentions.

2017-04-29 | en

Seven Crosses in a Notebook

1983-07-23 | ru

Diskrummet

About the people at the bottom of the hierarchy working in a restaurant.

1974-11-06 | sv

A Witch's Tangled Hare

Rabbit - in this case Bugs - is an important needed ingredient in Witch Hazel's brew.

1959-10-31 | en

Färdknäpp

Dennis feels he's had enough of the cozy middle-class life in the suburbia. Before the middle-age (and John Denver's records) puts him down he wants to break away from everything. Unfortunately his wife Pauline and their friends William and Jane don't make it easy for him. To make matters worse, there seems to be some young punks vandalizing the neighborhood, but it's definitely not the ones everyone seem to believe it is.

1991-12-28 | sv

King Lear

A descendant of Shakespeare tries to restore his plays in a world rebuilding itself after the Chernobyl catastrophe obliterates most of human civilization.

1988-01-22 | en

William Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew

Lucentio loves Bianca but cannot court her until her shrewish older sister Katherina marries. The eccentric Petruccio marries the reluctant Katherina and uses a number of tactics to render her an obedient wife.

1983-02-06 | en

Twelfth Night

Twins Viola and Sebastian are separated by a shipwreck. Viola lands in Illyria, where she disguises herself as a man and enters the service of Duke Orsino. Orsino sends her to help woo the Lady Olivia, who doesn't want the Duke, but finds she likes the new messenger. When Sebastian reappears, with Viola now his exact double, merry hell breaks loose. Meanwhile, Olivia's uncle and his cohorts are trying to find some way to get back at Olivia's officious majordomo, Malvolio.

1957-12-15 | en

Ett Dockhem

Television adaptation of Ibsen's play about woman's role in society and marriage.

1970-12-27 | sv

Midsommardröm i fattighuset

Blind-Jonas is in a poorhouse dreaming about his past, in contrast the young girl Cecilia shows up dreaming about her future.

1980-12-14 | sv

Mr. Sleeman Is Coming

A young girl is torn between marrying the old man herr Sleeman for money or the young hunter out of love.

1983-02-28 | sv

Kamraterna

Axel and Bertha are a married couple who are both artists in 1880s Paris, the film addresses the topic of gender equality in marriage and society, for example the property rights of married women.

1982-10-04 | sv

Stängda dörrar

Inès, Estelle, and Garcin are condemned to be together in a single room and soon start arguing and accusing each other.

1981-11-10 | sv

Revisorn

When the people of a small corrupt town find out a secret inspector will be arriving shortly they panic, something which a lazy civil servant takes full advantage of and lets them believe that he is that inspector.

1990-12-26 | sv

Easter

Drama about a family going through a crisis during the Easter weekend.

1988-10-16 | sv